Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field. - John Stuart Mill

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Men, and governments, must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.